July 2020
Covid-19 infects global space community
... operators to pay down debt and position themselves for future growth. Before filing for bankruptcy, Londonregistered OneWeb was in the process of building a mega-constellation of 648 satellites in order to achieve full global coverage by the end...
January 2020
Open source space sustainability
... be graded for conformity with sustainability standards. The second half of 2019, with the first satellites of the OneWeb and Starlink constellations in orbit, witnessed a burst of new initiatives to define and assess sustainable satellite operations...
February 2020
Aeroshells – from LEO to Mars
... with ClearSpace (Switzerland) to increase the technology readiness level of direct capture in the Sunrise Project, co-initiated by OneWeb and ESA. Aeroshell advantage Aeroshells also have the potential to keep their payload unscathed during the...
November 2018
Purpose, promise and power – video from space
...high resolution satellites, for instance, already provides total global EO coverage on a daily basis. The proposed OneWeb constellation applies similar technology to deliver global internet access. With the application of new manufacturing techniques...
October 2021
Congested, contested... under-regulated and unplanned
... poles, increasing the risk of collisions, and Iridium subsequently reduced the orbital inclinations to lower the risk. OneWeb’s orbital design appears to have undergone a very similar evolution in more recent times. Nevertheless, it remains the case...
April 2017
Sky-fi dawn of the space internet era
... coverage, including the balloons of Google’s Project Loon, the drones of Facebook, and the satellites of SpaceX and OneWeb. The most popular technology for space communication is radio frequency (RF) communication, used by Project Loon, SpaceX and...
